Index of English words, starting with "ta"

(1) - Tadpole (n.) The hooded merganser.
(2) - Tadpole (n.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.

(1) - Taenia (n.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.
(2) - Taenia (n.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
(3) - Taenia (n.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.